Good morning, ‘DOV’ is a very common name and means bear in Hebrew. Shalom, Malka Chosnek

Sally is right that there's no one answer for all times and places. It appears the Supreme Court of DC was like a "county court" in Washington DC for some time, including 1922. A cursory search did

Carlsruhe O/S = Carlsruhe, Oberschlesien = Carlsruhe in Upper Silesia = nowadays Pokój, Poland. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokój,_Opole_Voivodeship Militsch = Milicz

I would say it is Carlsruhe now written Karsruhe in Germany -- Françoise KRAFT searching KRAFT from HRUBIESCHOW (Poland) and ODESSA (Ukraine). INDIS from ODESSA (Ukraine),BELTSY (Moldova) and

Karen, in the modern Hebrew it is rather popular name. In the dictionary it is signed as "being re-newed or translated." I don't think it is from the Bible. It means "bear". In Russian it is connected

Moses, The card is actually a residency card from the city of Posen. I find the German Wikipedia to be useful to find these towns from Prussian Poland. A search by the German name will generally bring

What is the correct term nowadays for… A) 2 males living together as an unmarried couple? Married couple? B) 2 females as an unmarried couple? Married couple? C) Male and female

I have Dov Ber in my family and he went by Bernard or Bert in the US. Hope this helps. Diane Jacobs Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

In response to Nick's inability to locate Abraham VOGEL in the U.S., I was informed by an archivist in Amsterdam that it was common for the Dutch who emigrated to the U.K. and U.S. after name adoption

Please explain what is the Belarus Revision List and how to see it.

The first and third cities appear to be Karlsruhe (formally spelled Carlsruhe) in the Federal State of Baden-Würtemberg. Can you provide a link to where you found this census? Judith Smyrna,

Carlsruhe is the name of several locations: Karlsruhe, a city in Germany (Karlsruhe was formerly Carlsruhe) Carlsruhe O/S and Bad Carlsruhe, German names of the village Pokój in Poland Looks most

I wonder, are you looking for the 'Szasz family--Zahava Szasz----- famous book 'Thorns in the Tokaj Valley?--From Abaujszanto Hungary? She lives in New York and her sister is in Israel Zahava --I had

Hello Moses, the first and third entry will be Carlsruhe /S (Schlesien = Silesia) which is quite likely to be Pokoj in Silesia now; the second entry ist Militzsch - now Milicz in Lower-Silesia. With

Hello. I am not sure, but it maybe not enough to have a relatives from Germany (before 1940th), but also to prove your German. If you need to be teached, I do it for free. I am jewish and teaching

Dov is a common Hebrew name. Named for the bear. See: https://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/GivenNames/slide21.html David Rosen Boston, MA

My ancestors were of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry (Nunes Cardozo, De Chaves, Nunes Martinez, Gomez de Costa), many of whom came to London from Amsterdam in the late 17th / early 18 centuries. I

my theory is that it reads sane Hebrew yalin .but that is just a possibility it could be that Sana was a nickname for yalin Eli Schwartz

I can take part in indexing by the cities of Romny and the county, Sumy, Mogilev-Podolsky, Tulchin.

Does anyone know what criteria would result in a person being removed from a revision list? i.e. is it possible for somebody to be listed in a list dated 1907 who had left Lithuania circa 1890 (rest